The fake news published by alt-left websites like The Canary *matters*.

Canary republished Max Blumenthal’s smear of journalist/anthropologist Carl David Goette-Luciak from conspiracy site MintPress last week, and this week Goette-Luciak was arrested by the Nicaraguan state.

Update: The Canary has doubled down, says it was "irresponsible" of The Guardian to source news from someone who might say something critical of an authoritarian state - better, presumably, to only publish news would-be dictators will like...

Good thread on what makes Max Blumenthal's & @TheCanaryUK's "reporting" on Nicaragua so bad - particularly their misrepresentation of a popular (mainly black & indigenous) uprising as some kind of US regime change plot

My Feb top tweet was also Syria related, responding to a call to save Afrin from Turkey. With Turkey poised to roll on Manbij as US abandons the Kurds, we're seeing similar calls now, from folks who condemned interventions to save other Syrians

🏴The walls between the Trump movement, the alt-right & actual fascism are paper thin.
🏴”Left-wing” themes (anti-war politics, the evil of banks) are gateways to the far right scene too. (When Trump pivoted to attacking Assad in April was a devastating moment for these guys.)

🏴”Economic concerns” are not negligible in explaining the appeal of the far right, but cultural ones are more important; active alt-right/fascists are typically white collar.
🏴Fragile masculinity is as central to current forms of far right mobilisation as race thinking.

Russia and Iran are engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at US citizens. Twitter just released over 10 million tweets from over 4500 Russian and Iranian accounts engaged in influence operations dating back to 2009. We've analyzed the data. Here's what you need to know...

Russia's influence operations are far-reaching, aimed at a number of countries. This, of course, includes ops aimed at US voters in 2016, but also includes their own people. 58 Russian-language accounts tweeted regional "news" related to Crimea, Syria, and other military action.

44 US-directed local "news" accounts amassed over half a million followers. By using local-sounding news source names, they were able to dupe Americans from *other* regions to share what they thought was authentic news.

#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!

The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.

#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.

Politico, the media outlet of choice for flacks and hacks, has declared that Ron DeSantis, the conservative Republican running for Governor of Florida, against the media’s favorite new socialist, suffered his “fifth race-related” controversy.

That fifth “controversy” is about something that somebody who isn’t DeSantis tweeted.

Politico, the media outlet of choice for flacks and hacks, has declared that Ron DeSantis, the conservative Republican running for Governor of Florida, against the media’s favorite new socialist, suffered his “fifth race-related” controversy.

That 5th “controversy” is about something that somebody who isn’t DeSantis tweeted. The 4th controversy involved a DeSantis donor. The 3rd controversy falsely smeared David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend attended by DeSantis and Medal of Honor winner Clinton Romesha